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Post by Kenny Dalglish 1979 on Feb 14, 2018 21:36:28 GMT
Didn't really care much about it when it first came on 4 years ago (I was busy watching other stuff like the remastered blu-rays of The Professionals series 1), but after hearing so much about it and seeing some very intense pics from it, I bought the 1st series from WHSmith's and when I got round to watching it, I understood why it was so acclaimed and won those awards. Sarah Lancashire is the ultimate feisty heroine with a lot of emotional baggage and Sally Wainwright's excellent script allows the viewer to look at the troubled underbelly of the Yorkshire Dales (well to be precise, Calder Valley). And also, what about Tommy Lee Royce? Often hailed as the most evil antagonist on terrestrial TV in recent years, he would have suited The Sweeney to a tee. A complete psychopath, cruelly mysogynistic, sadistic, twisted and cold, he could be pretty well on par with Tim Cook. Series 2 wasn't quite as good as 1 but was still watchable.
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Post by Cartman on Feb 15, 2018 10:01:03 GMT
This was excellent. I missed parts of series 1 but caught the whole of series 2. Sarah Lancashire was brilliant in it
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Post by Kenny Dalglish 1979 on Feb 17, 2018 1:18:34 GMT
This was excellent. I missed parts of series 1 but caught the whole of series 2. Sarah Lancashire was brilliant in it Series 1 was compelling from start to finish with some exciting, gruelling action scenes thrown in and a tense finale. |
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Feb 18, 2018 11:59:19 GMT
My parents told me not to watch it, several times. They said it’s really, really well made but the content was so horrific they several times said for God’s sake don’t watch it.
But being a lover of police and crime stories ... around autumn last year I thought “sod it, I’ll give it a go”. I think I got to about half way through episode 3 before turning it off and wishing I’d listened to them!! :(
The thing is I still want to know the story, so perhaps I should just look up the plot summary somewhere. It was when she started having flashbacks of her daughter - I just thought nope! Does it get worse or stay at a boy the same level of evil?
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Post by OnTheBusesHugeFan on Feb 19, 2018 14:41:36 GMT
I Never Did Watch This . I Forgot it was on . its seems quite good though i might have to give a watch at somepoint.
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Post by DI Alex Drake on Feb 19, 2018 14:47:00 GMT
It's on Netflix, if you have access to that.
One I can recommend also is The Tunnel!
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Post by OnTheBusesHugeFan on Feb 20, 2018 20:43:40 GMT
Cheers DI Alex
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Post by Kenny Dalglish 1979 on Feb 28, 2018 13:55:56 GMT
My parents told me not to watch it, several times. They said it’s really, really well made but the content was so horrific they several times said for God’s sake don’t watch it. But being a lover of police and crime stories ... around autumn last year I thought “sod it, I’ll give it a go”. I think I got to about half way through episode 3 before turning it off and wishing I’d listened to them!! :( The thing is I still want to know the story, so perhaps I should just look up the plot summary somewhere. It was when she started having flashbacks of her daughter - I just thought nope! Does it get worse or stay at a boy the same level of evil? Episode 4 of series 1 has a very brutal fight scene at the end and some blood. The next episode is more sedate by comparison but the final one has a very intense, dramatic and disturbing climax. Series 2 is very vicious in some places too but not quite as violent IMHO as series 1. |
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Post by Kenny Dalglish 1979 on Mar 17, 2019 1:40:24 GMT
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